MOVIE COMMENTARY: The Core (2003)

There’s nothing more refreshing than a big Hollywood movie with a plot based on sound science. Since those don’t exist, the Film Pigs watched The Core instead. We’re not sure what was more astounding: the Space Shuttle crash landing in the LA river (which could TOTALLY happen), the amount of people per square mile that have pacemakers, or Stanley Tucci’s wig.

None of the clearly well-researched science in this movie would be believable if Aaron Eckhart hadn’t been sporting the frosted surfer-boy locks that were so common among scientists of the early 2000s. And who knew The Next Karate Kid could pilot a train with a laser on front straight into the earth?

TO SYNC WITH MOVIE: start this commentary 10 seconds after starting movie (chapter 1 for DVD/BD).

His conclusion was the science is mostly preposterous but the movie is fun. Which, incidentally, is my conclusion as well.

It’s too bad the screenwriter got so fussy about the criticisms (especially when he felt the need to take the same kind of cheap shots he felt others were taking at him). Part of the fun of a B sci-fi movie is the nonsense science. Sure, an underground laser-drilling train made out of an indestructible material on a mission to restart the earth’s core is silly, but you still root for that little train.